Causal nba fans love Greek Giannis cause he’s linked with the Europeans
And hate lebron cause he’s African American
There is absolutely a tendency/bias in the US for people to love and support Black stars/celebrities etc that have some sort of "public failure/vulnerability/weakness/liability" moreso than one without public blemish or one that has a more direct connection to whiteness (by birth, marriage, politics etc) than one that is unabashedly Black.
Bron has his faults, like everyone else...but the one thing that I feel never gets as much attention as it deserves, even though it's widely discussed.....is the fact that he's achieved all of this with the weight of the world on his shoulders since he was 14/15 years old.
In every other sport where you had kids that young being hounded by media, playing professionally etc.....most of them ended up burning out, never fulfilling expectations or even if they did have great careers, weren't still on the top of the game even as they approach 40 yrs old. The other thing to realize is that many of them played individual sports (tennis), not having to rely on teammates nor having the pressure of representing cities or franchises etc.
Dude kept it real with the girl who was with him from the beginning, and never embarrassed himself by making babies with some silicone injected "influencer." His kids aren't embarrassing him by becoming tabloid fodder chasing clout bc they're looking for the approval they never received from their father (see Jordan).